Sas 9.4m8 [2026]

: After the end of Standard Support, products will move to "Limited Support," meaning they will no longer receive security patches or bug fixes.

9.4M8 (and subsequent M9) has stricter enforcement of character encoding, often flagging issues with non-UTF-8 characters in data or code. sas 9.4m8

Features a new LIMITPROCNOTES system option (added in late 2023) to manage log verbosity. : After the end of Standard Support, products

New TIFF and TIFFK devices support RGBA and CMYK color modes, respectively, while SVG/GIF devices support animation. products will move to "Limited Support

For SAS programmers who’ve been using SAS 9.4M7’s Studio 3.x, the jump to 5.2 is transformative.